title: Sympathetic skin potentials and bulbocavernosus reflex in patients with chronic alcoholism and impotence.
abstract: Fifteen chronic alcoholic male patients with impotence have been investigated with the electrophysiological method of sympathetic skin potentials recorded from the genital skin and with the electrically induced bulbocavernosus reflex. Both electrophysiological tests did not differ from those of normal controls. It was proposed that there is no obvious role of the peripheral neuropathic factors in the pathogenesis of impotence in chronic alcoholism.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neurology, SSK Regional Hospital, Buca, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ertekin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Almis
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ertekin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007172:Erectile Dysfunction / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005837:Genitalia, Male / Q000294:innervation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009431:Neural Conduction / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012018:Reflex / Q000502:physiology*; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation*; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*